Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 523 501
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 +86
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 418 509 1,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 2.42% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 231 309 540
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,502
25th Percentile £55,070 £53,000 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.95% +0.21% +14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata.

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

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Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -33 311 £69,469 +2.92% 110
UK excluding London +1 236 £62,500 +3.95% 51
London +52 144 £80,000 +14.29% 65
Work from Home -55 111 £65,000 -5.39% 55
Scotland -1 70 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Midlands +24 62 £55,000 +4.76% 13
West Midlands +39 58 £57,500 +9.52% 13
North of England +60 51 £75,000 +15.38% 11
South East -24 36 £85,000 +3.03% 8
North West +25 31 £100,000 +92.31% 7
Yorkshire +72 13 £60,000 -19.46% 2
South West -59 13 £68,937 +14.42% 5
North East -6 7 £42,500 +7.66% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £50,000 +11.45%
East of England -16 3 £31,000 -43.64% 8
Wales -2 1 £47,500 -15.75% 3

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.11%) SAS
3 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.39%) Confluence
4 9 (2.15%) Apache
5 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.96%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.24%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.96%) Trello
4 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.20%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 131 (31.34%) Azure
2 66 (15.79%) AWS
3 55 (13.16%) Power Platform
4 43 (10.29%) GCP
5 26 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (6.22%) Snowflake
6 25 (5.98%) Collibra
6 25 (5.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (5.26%) Matillion
7 22 (5.26%) Serverless
8 18 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.35%) GitHub
10 11 (2.63%) PaaS
11 9 (2.15%) SaaS
12 8 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.91%) dbt
13 7 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (1.67%) Dagster
13 7 (1.67%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.55%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.48%) WebEx
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (15.55%) Data Lake
3 50 (11.96%) Power BI
4 33 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.22%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.98%) Big Data
7 21 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (4.55%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (2.63%) Ataccama
10 11 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
10 11 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.39%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.91%) Data Hub
12 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.91%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.44%) OLAP
14 6 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (19.86%) Git
2 73 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.55%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.55%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.39%) JIRA
5 9 (2.15%) GitLab
6 5 (1.20%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.72%) ERwin
8 2 (0.48%) Ant
8 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
9 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 180 (43.06%) Finance
2 118 (28.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 84 (20.10%) Marketing
6 74 (17.70%) Law
7 52 (12.44%) Banking
8 20 (4.78%) Retail Banking
9 17 (4.07%) Legal
10 16 (3.83%) Financial Institution
11 13 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (3.11%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.67%) Billing
14 7 (1.67%) Retail
15 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.96%) Wearables
17 3 (0.72%) Publishing
18 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 175 (41.87%) Architect
2 151 (36.12%) Data Architect
3 124 (29.67%) Senior
4 83 (19.86%) Lead
5 73 (17.46%) Software Engineer
6 67 (16.03%) Lead Software Engineer
7 52 (12.44%) Senior Architect
7 52 (12.44%) Senior Data Architect
8 45 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (9.81%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.13%) Analyst
11 28 (6.70%) Data Analyst
12 22 (5.26%) Data Manager
13 17 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (4.07%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (4.07%) Salesforce Architect
14 16 (3.83%) Azure Data Engineer
15 15 (3.59%) DevOps Architect
15 15 (3.59%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 13 (3.11%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.70%) XML
2 70 (16.75%) Web Services
3 67 (16.03%) JSON
4 65 (15.55%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.55%) LDAP
4 65 (15.55%) OpenID
4 65 (15.55%) RESTful
4 65 (15.55%) SAML
5 6 (1.44%) .NET
5 6 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (1.20%) HTML
6 5 (1.20%) Itk
6 5 (1.20%) J2EE
6 5 (1.20%) Kafka
7 4 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.96%) PySpark
8 3 (0.72%) Anaconda
8 3 (0.72%) Flask
8 3 (0.72%) Pandas
8 3 (0.72%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.86%) Management Information System
2 84 (20.10%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 24 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.59%) PlayStation
7 14 (3.35%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.63%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.91%) Blog
10 8 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.91%) NHS
11 6 (1.44%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.20%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.39%) Windows
2 3 (0.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Unix
3 2 (0.48%) Android
3 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (62.20%) Data Modelling
2 192 (45.93%) Agile
3 188 (44.98%) Metadata Management
4 153 (36.60%) Data Management
5 147 (35.17%) Data Architecture
6 145 (34.69%) Analytics
7 123 (29.43%) Data Pipeline
8 118 (28.23%) Data Governance
9 108 (25.84%) CI/CD
10 107 (25.60%) Roadmaps
11 105 (25.12%) Data Strategy
12 98 (23.44%) SDLC
13 96 (22.97%) Software Engineering
14 92 (22.01%) Business Intelligence
15 89 (21.29%) DevOps
16 88 (21.05%) Use Case
17 79 (18.90%) Data Transformation
18 78 (18.66%) Architectural Design
19 75 (17.94%) ETL
19 75 (17.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 124 (29.67%) SQL
2 65 (15.55%) Go
2 65 (15.55%) Prolog
2 65 (15.55%) SPARQL
3 54 (12.92%) Python
4 40 (9.57%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.74%) Java
6 8 (1.91%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.91%) R
6 8 (1.91%) Scala
7 5 (1.20%) C
7 5 (1.20%) C++
7 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.96%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.72%) C#
9 3 (0.72%) VBA
10 2 (0.48%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (8.61%) Degree
2 22 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.78%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.83%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.91%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.91%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.20%) MCAD
8 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 46 (11.00%) GDPR
3 6 (1.44%) GRC
4 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.96%) QA
6 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.72%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.48%) HL7
7 2 (0.48%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (15.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (3.83%) Terraform
2 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Cast Iron
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
Vendors
1 80 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.88%) Databricks
3 33 (7.89%) Oracle
4 20 (4.78%) Informatica
4 20 (4.78%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.07%) IBM
6 15 (3.59%) Facebook
6 15 (3.59%) Sony
7 14 (3.35%) Google
8 10 (2.39%) SAP
9 4 (0.96%) Adobe
9 4 (0.96%) ESRI
9 4 (0.96%) Talend
10 3 (0.72%) Ab Initio
10 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.72%) Sparx
11 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.48%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (0.48%) Siemens